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"I believe that access to a university education should be based on the ability to learn, not what people can afford. I think there is no more nauseating a sight than politicians pulling up the ladder of opportunity behind them."
"You mustn't confuse the need for effective chairmanship, which is part of the job of the boss, along with the ability to take tough decisions and to lead people."
"The events of the Holocaust viewed through the eyes of Anne Frank are a unique and damming testament to the dreadful atrocities of that period of our history"
"My approach is always to try to be straight with people, especially about what my party can achieve."
"I think that former leaders are best seen occasionally and not too often heard - particularly on the subject of their successors!"
"I am genuinely not an over-the-top kind of person about politics or anything else."
"You won't catch Liberal Democrats describing trade unionists as wreckers."
"There are hard choices to be made in balancing the country's security and an individual's liberties. But it is a choice that has to be faced."
"I have never once been persuaded as to the causal link between the Iraqi regime, al-Qaeda and September 11. I do believe the impact of war under these circumstances is bound to weaken the international coalition against terrorism itself."
"Politicians are good at saying how Government must do more, but we must also think carefully about where Government should do less."
"My health is good and it's up to me to keep it that way."
"I'm a lifelong believer in trade unionism."
"I do think there is a great deal of caricature around the House of Commons. It is just that kind of place."
"For any new leader of any party at any given time it takes time if you are not in government to establish yourself."
"My idealism has not abated, but I have witnessed it withering away nationwide, to the point where at least among the young, to have ideals is akin to being blinkered and oldfashioned."
"We Liberal Democrats believe in dialogue. We believe in cooperation with both sides of industry and between both sides of industry. And we believe in the language of cooperation. We reject the language of confrontation."
"Yes, you need substance in politics - but I think your style also says something about how you arrive at some of your conclusions."
"It is true that I entered parliament at the age of 23, and have now been representing the people of my constituency for over twenty years."
"Actually, I think it's quite sensible not to take yourself too seriously."
"There is no satisfaction to be derived from having had many of our arguments borne out by events."